Compulsive Behaviors

Getting a little restless, I decided that it was time to figure out what was going on with the gallows and see if they're tied to the new hobgoblin tax collectors that the emperor has hired. I left the town with Milo, Zig, and Grur. Milo is the human barbarian that I ventured forth with before and a goblin and a lizard folk respectively.
 
We ventured out of town and saw the peaceful house upon a hill and decided to investigate it. Coming upon it, we discovered that it was named Badger Hill and it had several different types of bushes around it and a peaceful atmosphere. We entered the building and it was a a peaceful content place. We spent the next day there cleaning and helping with the upkeep for the Badger-man that was there. It was a delightful experience even though Zig kept making a mess of things...silly goblin.
 
After spending a day there, we made our way up the road to the crossroads and discovered that the burnt gallows had been cleaned up, although the char marks remained. There was now a crucifix with a single person on it instead. There are armored, booted tracks in the area. The body appears to have been in poor health and badly abused.
 
We talked about setting a trap or following the tracks when I suggested that maybe if we dug a new hole for the body we'd be attacked again. As we were finishing that up, a wolf came out of the forest and was going to attack, but I was the savior for the day! I cast my Speak with Animals spell and was able to convince the wolf not to attack us! Which is super awesome! I was able to get information from them about the people who had been coming to the cross roads. There were two sets of people coming. The first set were the 'weak' people. The second set were people who 'smelled like oil and metal.'
 
We watched some hobgoblin mercenaries walk through they talked some shit according to Zig before moving on. At Grur's direction, we set up an ambush complete with hidden pits and pungie sticks. We wound up killing 4 of the hobgoblins and then captured their leader.
 
She didn't give us any answers to our questions using a line, something about lawfully employed by the emperor or some such bull. I wanted to just take to a town where she had murdered people from and let them carry out their own form of punishment. However Zig freaking stuck up for the hobgoblin and said that she should face a trial. So Frog marched her back to town for questioning and information. Or at that's what we were planning on doing, but the stupid hobgoblin escaped, during my watch none the less! GAH I'M SO PISSED. She did it specifically to make me look bad, what a bitch! I know her name is Fel and I am SOOOOOOooooOOOOO going to write a song about her bitchy ass.
 
So we go back to river crossing to try and head her off, she's got about an hour head start on us which meant that she was long gone and we wouldn't be able to catch her, which means that we're going to have to deal with that bullship later. I was so frustrated.
 
AND THEN, we're on our way back and we hear some rustling in the woods, I go to ritually cast speak with animals, just in case, but we get jumped by more of those stupid half ogre things! I was tired, exhausted and just pissy and THEN we had to deal with these ASSHOLES!!!! This adventuring shit is for the birds sometimes I swear! Milo fell into quicksand and things just kept going from bad to worse! But then I was the hero! I raced up and all 5'7'' 130 pounds of me HAULED OUT A THREE HUNDRED POUND MOUNTAIN OF MAN FROM FREAKING QUICKSAND. I. AM. AWESOME!
 
We finally made is back to town...and now I'm going to focus on writing a "diss track" for the stupid hobgoblin.